Sentences with phrase «sacrament because»

And when he included the institution of the Eucharist among the new mysteries of the rosary it was, he said, because «Mary can guide us to this most holy sacrament because she herself has a profound relationship with it» (ibid).

Catechumens who die before baptism are said to receive the grace of the sacrament because of «their desire to receive it, together with repentance of their sins and charity» (Catechism of the Catholic Church in 1259).

The argument Megan references is that Quakers don't need sacraments because we recognize all of life is a sacrament.

So the argument that Christians require sacraments because otherwise we get all up in our head and detached from the world is just empirically false.

Even though they do not receive the sacramental rites, God gives them the grace of the sacraments because of their inner spiritual state.

Much older Catholics recall things like the ban on music at a «mixed marriage» — and in some dioceses even the consignment of such a wedding to the sacristy and consequent lack of any sense of celebration — or refusal of the Sacraments because of a failure to send children to a Catholic school.

Sacraments are sacraments because God designates them to be such, but he doesn't override the features of things when he designates them to be used as rites in the church.

Not exact matches

There is no other prerequisite than faith for the fruitful reception of the sacrament, because the sacrament is itself the public act in which Christ bestows his grace on the ungodly.

Therefore if you come forward to the sacrament of penance and do not believe firmly that you are absolved in heaven, you come forward to judgment and damnation, because you do not believe that Christ has spoken what is true: Whatever you loose, etc., and so by your doubt you make Christ a liar, which is a horrible sin....

So, in summary, marriage, which is primarily for having children, is a good, because offspring, faith, and sacrament are goods.

sacraments — true you probably don't need a church for them — baptism is commanded (for believers), it's special, but not neccesssarily a sacrament, it can be done by any believer, although possibly it was only the apostles who baptized (I tend to go with the baptist view on baptism, because that's what I read in the Bible.

So my independent critical thinking is this: Jesus Christ founded His Church for His people so when we fall into sin we have His inst!tuted Sacraments to bring us back to the relationship we had with Him at our Baptism; to leave the Church in search of something «man made» because of someone's sin would just mean that I would go somewhere else where there are people and people the world over sin!

Searching for Sunday has provided ample opportunity for creative collaboration because the sacraments at the heart of the book — baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, anointing the sick, and marriage — are rich and complex and endlessly inspiring.

The seven Sacraments of the Incarnation are objectively guaranteed because they are based on the perfect union of God and Man.

I am a Christian because of the sacraments, which Kerlin describes as «faith under our fingernails,» and where Jes says «abundant life is not only personal, but communal,» experienced in bread, wine, water, words, touch, sound, and smell.

A properly ordered heterosexual relationship is a liturgical event because it is a mirror image - a sacrament - of the covenant between God and mankind, between Christ and the Church.

A central plank of Garnet's legal defense was that, although he was made aware of the Gunpowder Plot beforehand, he could not have done anything to stop it because he learnt about it only during the sacrament of confession.

From Megan: I've always found the Quaker view of sacraments difficult to understand because Jesus himself participated in the sacraments.

Let me start by setting aside the word «sacrament» itself, because such language isn't Biblical.

The modernist — the extreme modernist, infidel in all but name — need not be called a fool or hypocrite because he obstinately retains, even in the midst of his intellectual atheism, the language, rites, sacraments, and story of the Christians.

For that reason, the celebration of a sacrament always results in an encounter with Christ, if the recipient is well disposed, because the encounter itself does not depend on the holiness of the minister (usually the priest).

To conclude this activity, it is important to explain that in the Sacrament, although they see a priest and he will say «I forgive you» because he is there in the person of Christ, it is Jesus who does the forgiving as He did in the Gospels.

It is because God dwells in the world that the world can be turned into a sacrament.

For me, it's also powerfully evangelistic because the words teach people what the Church requires of them and explain what the Sacraments do for them.»

If Lutherans really believe what their theology says about Word and Sacrament, then I think they would be equally passionate about engaging other Christians: When Christians understand what Christ offers in the sacraments, that understanding, and what is actually received, changes their lives because they come into direct contact with the death and new life of Jesus.

What matters is that moment of conversion, not the sacrament of baptism, because everything depends on my being able to say «I believe.»

«It is above all because the sacraments are a personal encounter with Christ that we are able to witness authentically and credibly to the person and mission of Jesus»

A liturgical order of prayer exists because prayer as such exists, the former does not create the latter, but on the contrary presupposes it, in the same way as sacraments exist only because there is grace which precedes both ontologically and historically its social (though efficacious) expression in the sacraments.

I think I would have disagreements with Bob Mansfield because of the «evangelical» bent of trying harder rather than using God's gifts of the sacraments and confession and absolution, (I am guessing), it is right to state the «law» clearly.

Renewal is embodied in the sacramental life of the church in the sacrament of baptism, a kind of rebirth which brings the individual into the church, the communion of saints, who, because they are in Christ, share a provisional form of paradise.

If the Corinthians suppose that they are somehow (magically) protected from sin and its consequences because they have been baptized into Christ and partake of Christ in the Eucharist, remember, says Paul, that the Israelites had their sacraments, too.

For me I do believe in the Sacraments and the role they play in Salvation - Jesus did change wine into this blood and the bread into his body during the last supper and told believers to do this in his memory and he did foreshadow what would happen on the Cross he gave up his life so we maybe could be saved, because not all who profess Christ is Lord or believe in God will be saved, there are many people who claim they can abuse, sleep around, steal, cheat and that they'll still go to heave because 1 day they said the sinner's prayer, actions speak louder then words.

Christian iconoclasts have perennially argued that images have no place in the church because images of human devising fall short of God's self - revealed image in Jesus and the sacraments.

This, therefore, is the sacrament of marriage a flesh and blood image of Christ's love, enabled and supported by the grace of Christ because it is for Christ and it serves Christ.

If a marriage is not valid from the start, it can not bind people to stay together for life, because it is not a sacrament.

If it is later discovered that the spouses were never in a position to be the minister because of some impediment, because they were unable to give consent, then they would have been unable to confer the sacrament, and the sacrament would be invalid.

Luther (I am a Lutheran) cut down the number of sacraments to two, because those were the only two instances in scripture (that he could find, and he knew the bible pretty well... almost memorized the whole thing!)

Because she accepted sacrament as truth, she found it easy to view the natural thins of this world as vehicles for God's grace.

But what has happened to the ministry is all that term suggests and reports, but more painful and accusatory because of the gravity of that public bestowing and receiving of the Lord's Ministry of Word and Sacrament.

For to the Greek Fathers the sacraments are «the mysteries», because they are the presence and actions of God in Person through the Word Incarnate who lives and ministers in his Church by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Fr Stephen Brown on the Sacrament of Reconciliation - «I think confession is a win - win situation for us because we are healed of the wounds that our sins cause us and we are therefore brought closer to God.»

However, this alone is not enough to constitute man as a sacrament, because a sacrament is not just a sign, a sacrament is an outward or material sign.

Because the human need for this vivifying message is never satisfied, the church must in all times and places continue the proclamation by word and sacrament, as long as human history endures — «until he comes.»

Catholic faith and theology see world, Scripture, Church, and Christ (the sacrament) as sacraments of God — as body in which, by which, and through which man (because man is body) receives God's presence and returns his love.

For, most confusingly, his John Knox persona suddenly turns into the reincarnation of Bishop Thomas Crammer, when, not forty pages later, he starts defending the hierarchy, albeit of the Anglican variety: «Pope Benedict XVI,» Wills sneers, «when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote in 1998 that it is an infallible teaching of the church that Anglican bishops and priests are fake bishops and priests, dispensing fake sacraments, because they are outside the apostolic succession.»

Smith and Black claimed that the denial of benefits was an unconstitutional burden on their free exercise of religion, because it penalized them for taking part in what to them was a religious sacrament.

Because it's convenient to pretend that they've served God by performing the sacrament, instead of helping people?

It concerned the use of excommunication by the new Christian authorities, and other difficult matters like the celebration of Mass when there was no congregation (not approved) and the reservation of the Sacrament — also not approved because Communion should not be separated from the Word.

Through their ministry, we receive a guarantee that the full work, truth and love of Christ is not lost in history but remains ever present because it is He who is the source and agent of the sacrament these men have received.

This involves a causality which Holloway calls physical and perfective: physical, because it is Christ, God made man, who acts directly through the material elements of the sacraments; perfective, because this is the fullness of God's one work in creation, which creation finds a special fruition when matter calls out for spirit and the two are joined in one unity which we call «man».